Belt-buckle.



No. mueca.

ratented october e, reos.

PATENT Felice. 4

Louis sANDERs, or `new Yoan, N: Y.'

B ELT'- B UC LE.

sPncIFIcAcrIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,928, dateeoctober c, Inca` Application filed July 22, 1903. Serial No. 166,551` (No model.)

. description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a simple construction of belt-buckle comprising a' frame or a body of skeleton construction and a central cross-bar oset from the rear of the frame or body, upon which the tongue is mounted in such manner that its inner end will have a earn action upon the end of the belt passed beneath thefsaid bar and over teeth on a second rearwardly-odset bar more or less close to the tongue-carrying bar. a i

A further purpose of the invention is to provide a construction of buckle which need not be sewed or otherwise positively attached to the belt, but wherein the buckle end ofthe belt may be freely passed in the above-mer.

tioned manner through the buckle and the buckle be adjusftably held on the belt by the frictional engagement of the belt with the rear oiset crossbars and the inner end ofthe tongue, which latter acts on the .belt only whenV the belt is in position on the person.

' The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter `fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in'which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the belt and the improved buckle applied.l Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken practically on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is an inner face' view of the buckle.

A represents the frame or skeleton body of the buckle, which may be made dat or may he longitudinally curved, as is shown in the drawings, and B represents the tongue ofthe buckle, which tongue is mounted to rook on a erossbar 10, offset from the rear portion of the said frame or body of the buckle a predetermined distance. The said tongue B is vprovided with an eye 11 where itis mounted ou the cross-bar 1l), `and the face oftheA l said eye 11 servesas a cam ,in the closed ,po-

.sition of the tongue.

Adjacent to the cross-bar 10 and parallel therewith a second cross-bar 13 is located atV the rear of the body or frame A, being likewise odset from the said frame or body. The second cross-bar 13 is located between the bar 10, which is about centrally placed on the frame and that end of the frame which is opposite the end engaged by the tongue B when the tongue is in closed position. Preferably that portion of the cross-bar 10 on which the tongue Bis mounted is reduced or is cut away, as is shown in Fig. 3.

ln the edge ofthe crossfbar 13 facing the cross-bar 10 a series of teeth 14 is produced, and one end 15 of a belt C is passed outward through the buckle at the inner end of the said body and then inward between the two crossbars 10 and 13, so that when the tongue oi' the buckle is in closed position the inner surface of its eye-section 11 engages with the belt C, particularly when the belt is in position on the person, and serves to hold the belt firmly and yet adjustably iu the buckle;` but the belt is held directly in the buckle by the frictional engagement between the teeth on the bar 13 and the belt and the frictional engagement between the said belt and the inner bar 10. The end of the belt thus passed through the buckle is more or less curved, and when tension is exerted on the belt-as, for example, when the belt is secured upon the person-the tendency ofthe gripping portions 10 and 13 of, the buckle is to bind firmly on the belt and prevent the buckle from slipping; but whenever it is necessary to adjust the buckle on the belt it is simply. necessary to force the end 15 outward, so as to cause the belt to freely loop over the toothed bar' 13, disengaging the beltfrom the. teeth of said bar, whereupon the buckle may be readily slipped longitudinally1 upon the belt tothe required position.

The opposite end of the belt 16 is provided with the usual apertures 17, adapted to receive the tongue B, and this end of the belt is passed between the outer end of the frame or body of the buckle and the inner bar 10, ou which the tongue is mounted.

By reason of the two cross-bars 10 and 13 .being rearvmrdlyfoffsetfrom the frame of the buckle the' end 15of the belt when passed in engagement with the'said' 'cross-bars wil-l be: decidedly benfor kinked', thereby causing the Said cross-barsl tohave a better grip onf the belts -th'a-n could be Obtained if thesaid crossy bars'were in the sameplaneivit'hihe-bod y o'f the framepj 7 Having thus; described navy injvenion, I,

Ol'aimlas new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-i In a buckle, e, frame, a erss-barrlocated .substantially al', the eentral portion of thesaid hamm-extending from side to side thereof and- 4being offset rearwardly from'. the frarne, e

ltongue pivotd on -thesaid erossbar and adapted'for engagement witb'the outer end.

vfion of the tongue serving as a eem, and a,

second' cross-bar located between the een# frally-placed Gross-bar and' Iche inner end 0f 'the frame, the second' cross-bar being pro-1 vided wiih teeth facing the eenfrally-placed 4cross-bar,-the Secc nd cross-bar being likewise rearwardly Offset from-the frame, for the pur- -pose described:

In'testimony' whereof I have signed myl nameto'fhis speciIiOation-in the presence of two, subseribng witnesses, LOUIS SANDERS.

J. FRED. ACKER,. EVERAED BOLTON MARSHALL. 

